World's fastest ferry route

8/29/2020 1:23:59 PM

Most answers here cite top speed, which isn’t really what the OP has asked. So rewriting this we get

  1. The HSC Franciso between Montevideo and Buenos Aires has a scheduled trip time of 2h 15m and the distance is 203 km, which makes for an average speed of 90.2 km/h.

I coudn’t find a time table for the Hormus, assuming that either it’s not running anymore or is suspended due to Covid.

8/28/2020 12:13:21 PM

The high-speed ferry operated by Buquebus travels between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay. It achieves a high speed of 58 knots (107 km/h) and a travel speed of 51 knots (95 km/h).
https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/francisco-high-speed-ferry/

8/28/2020 9:18:34 AM

The HSC Fransico (a catamaran ferry) has a top speed of 58 knots (107 kmh), however I don’t know if she does that in regular service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incat#Products

8/27/2020 10:33:11 PM

In Oman, between Muscat and the exclave Musandam, operate the Shinas and the Hormuz.

As reported by The Week, the Shinas has a top speed of 96 km/hour, whereas the Hormuz has a top speed of 104 km/hour:

It’s not a speedboat and it’s definitely not an F1 superboat. Call it the bullet ferry or a super catamaran if you will, but whichever way you look at it, the Shinas is probably as fast as it gets on water in a passenger ferry anywhere in the world.

10/9/2012 3:24:03 PM

The Ekranoplan is probably the fastest ferry, managing well over 400 knots. http://www.travelcentre.com.au/travel/airshows/Russian/russia_ekranoplan.htm

I am not sure whether they have them as scheduled ferry trips any more or whether they are charter trips, but what a stupendous craft!

10/8/2012 9:28:12 AM

Hovertravel operates hovercraft from Southsea, Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight. One of the types of hovercraft they are using is BHC AP1-88, which has 50 knots (93km/h) top speed.

10/8/2012 9:32:00 AM

I remember that back in the day, some high speed boats were used to go from France to Corsica. I could find some archives about these boats{french} (now they are too expensive to run because of oil prices).

So it says that Nice-Calvi took 2h45 at a speed of 37 knots (70 km/h). Using Google Maps, the distance of current route is 208 km (which would mean the speed is 75km/h). So I suppose it means that the route is probably now longer but yeah, the average speed was at least 70km/h at that time.

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